Oh yes, it is sleazy, with unmentionable but entirely fun tracks keeping things moving in the album's forth quarter. Tying things to the past, longtime E-40 producer Rick Rock gets plenty of airtime, including the opening 'Yay Area,' which brilliantly uses a tightly looped sample of Digable Planets' 'Rebirth of Slick' to get this quirky, sleazy party started. That's his biggest contribution to the rapper's career, giving the E-40 discography the rare solid album without trying to reinvent the man. The way the track slides into 'Muscle Cars' - which sounds like a dubbed 'Tell Me When to Go' with a Bay-loving freestyle over it - is Lil Jon in album-building mode. The hooky thumper 'Tell Me When to Go' is a great example, with Jon's minimal club track getting Bay Area slanguage spit all over it by 40 and the gravel-voiced great Keak da Sneak. Actually, Lil Jon seems to be adapting to the Bay more than E-40 is going South.

With past appearances on Master P and Eightball & MJG tracks, E-40 and the South have always been cool, and while Report Card has Lil Jon written all over it - literally and figuratively - E-40 isn't going to forget his beloved Bay Area and its ultra-enthusiastic audience.

family and his first with Lil Jon's Atlanta-based BME crew. Sleazy West Coast meets the slickest Dirty South on E-40's My Ghetto Report Card, the slang-slingin' rapper's first album for the Warner Bros.

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